Oct 4, 2010 · @gerrit: It could confuse an amateur like me. :D I used your code snippet to generate a password to password-protect an Excel file, and at the same time printed the password to stdout (I use Powershell and Notepad++). I realized that whenever there are 2 backslashes, somehow the password cannot be used to unprotect the Excel file.

Aug 16, 2021 · The better why do it is to focus instead on the ability to use a 'password helper', like "system-ask-password" which already provides a 'star password input'. SSH and SUDO can both do this! The user can then select their own way of inputting passwords, be it with stars, or from a password manager, or some other source! –

Nov 15, 2014 · I am currently username and password was equivalent to one found in the code. This is what I have so far: import os #Must Access this to continue. def main(): while True: UserName = i...

Apr 6, 2013 · Press q to quit: ") if status == "n": #create new login createLogin = raw_input("Create login name: ") if createLogin in users: # check if login name exist in the dictionary print "Login name already exist!\n" else: createPassw = raw_input("Create password: ") users[createLogin] = createPassw # add login and password print("\nUser created!\n ...

Even for casual password protection, as a general rule, user passwords are not stored in a plaintext form. Instead, usually a reliable one-way hash function is used to create a bit pattern that doesn't resemble the password. When a password is entered, the same hash function is applied and the bit patterns are compared.

Python creating username and password program [closed] ... and I am trying to create a username/password ...

Aug 21, 2012 · the secure way is encrypt your sensitive data by AES and the encryption key is derivation by password-based key derivation function (PBE), the master password used to encrypt/decrypt the encrypt key for AES. master password -> secure key-> encrypt data by the key. You can use pbkdf2

Jan 12, 2021 · I'm relatively new to python and stackoverflow but here's my shot at your problem: import string import random def password_generator(length): """ Function that generates a password given a length """ uppercase_loc = random.randint(1,4) # random location of lowercase symbol_loc = random.randint(5, 6) # random location of symbols lowercase_loc = random.randint(7,12) # random location of ...

Dec 13, 2016 · password.isdigit() does not check if the password contains a digit, it checks all the characters according to: str.isdigit(): Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise. password.isupper() does not check if the password has a capital in it, it checks all the characters according to:

Dec 19, 2020 · simply shuffle the resulting password at the end by adding this: password = "".join(random.sample(password,len(password))) This way you meet the requirements without creating a pattern. or you could shuffle the requirements and write the function like this: